When Thomas Harvey Wagner was born on 7 November 1852, in Coshocton, Ohio, United States, his father, Beal Adams Wagner, was 34 and his mother, Emily Marquand, was 30. He married Melvina Ellen Hightower in December 1873, in Dexter, Cowley, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Benton Township, Osage, Missouri, United States in 1870 and Justice Precinct 1, Hays, Texas, United States in 1880. He died on 10 March 1927, in Bethany, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Edmond, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States.
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Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) (also Wägner): occupational name for a carter and (in some dialects) a cartwright, from an agent derivative of Middle High German wagen ‘cart, wagon’, German Wagen. This surname is also established in many other parts of Europe, notably in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Britain, Poland, and Denmark. In Hungary it is mostly spelled Wágner and Vágner. In Russia, Czechia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Slovakia it is also found in the Slavicized form Vagner . Compare Wagener , Waggener , and Wagoner .
Dutch and perhaps also English: occupational name from Middle Dutch waghenaer ‘carter’ (compare 1 above). The Dutch word is not known to have been borrowed into English before 1600 but the surname Wagner is recorded in Norfolk (England) from 1379, perhaps a substitution of the Dutch word for Middle English wainer. Compare Waggoner .
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